Click here for the Friday Reading Search, a searchable archive of reading and knowledge resources

Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.

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UK Government, 10th April 2025
Commissioned by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the Home Office, this survey provides a comprehensive overview of the cyber security landscape for UK businesses and charities.
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Airmic (with Baker Tilly, S-RM, Paragon), 10th September 2024
This guide highlights the best practices and common pitfalls faced by organisations preparing for cyber incidents, and their resulting claims processes.
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Airmic Live
This Airmic webinar provides an overview of how the output of a cyber resilience programme can be used to model cyber economic loss exposures and the typical issues that arise when comparing these exposures to policy language.
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Howden
This guide aims to demystify some of the key elements of cyber risk, so you can take the necessary steps to protect your business.
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WTW, 1st May 2025
This year, nearly 60% said they expected the trade conflicts of the incoming Trump administration to have a negative impact on their finances. That was a similar proportion to those saying the Ukraine conflict had negatively impacted their business in 2023.
Political Risk Podcast, 30th April 2025
As we hit the first 100 days mark of US President Donald Trump’s second term, no other single word sums up the preoccupation of business leaders around the world better than tariffs. This podcast assesses the impact of the US’s tariffs, and how risk professionals and their organisations are responding to the fast-moving shifts in global trade. Special thanks to David Benyon, Editor of the Political Risk Podcast; Alexander Frost, Chief Markets Officer at Airmic; and Hoe-Yeong Loke, Head of Research at Airmic, for contributing to such an engaging and thought-provoking conversation.
Chatham House, 29th April 2025
The scale and shock of the president’s policymaking threatens to undermine his primary foreign policy objective: maintaining an advantage over China.
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McKinsey & Co, 11th April 2025
A nerve centre can help companies chart a course through expanding tariffs and trade controls by orchestrating nine rapid actions, from tariff operations to supplier diversification.
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KPMG, 1st April 2025
In KPMG’s latest UK Economic Outlook we look at the prospects for the UK economy for 2025 and 2026, including analysis of growth prospects, consumer spending, trade, inflation, interest rates, the labour market and public sector finances. While healthy household saving buffers and strong public spending should support economic performance, the imposition of broader tariffs could reduce UK GDP growth to 0.8% in 2025 and 2026.
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The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
The global economy now faces a significant shock with forecasted growth of just 1.9% in 2025, the weakest outturn since the pandemic. This downturn is largely attributed to Donald Trump’s new tariffs which are poised to disrupt global trade this year, pushing the United States into a recession of -0.1%.